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We are really excited to announce that PublicEngines has been recognized by Inc. magazine as one of the fastest growing private companies in the U.S. with reported growth of more than 1,247 percent! We’re blown away by the revolution that has taken place within the 5 years since the launch CrimeReports.com. In all, more than 2,500 law enforcement agencies, school districts, and nonprofit organizations worldwide have adopted at least one of our platforms. Astonishing.

The Inc. 500 list ranked PublicEngines as the fourth fastest growing company in the security category and 297th fastest growing private company in the country.

We’d like to congratulate all of our customers. You believed in us to deliver what you needed even when we were a whole lot smaller and totally unproven. In complete honesty, you deserve more recognition then I’m sure you get for your desire to be more open and communicative with the people you serve and willingness to adopt new technologies that help accomplish those goals. You took a big risk. Thank You.

William Kilmer, CEO of PublicEngines, notes “Moving forward, law enforcement agencies can expect PublicEngines to deliver a robust set of solutions with new capabilities that will continue making their jobs easier and their communities safer.”

PublicEngines’ products include CrimeReports.com, the industry’s most popular online crime mapping and engagement solution as well as the free CrimeReports mobile app for iPhones, used by law enforcement agencies to publish crime data and increase public information flow and interaction; CommandCentral, the leading cloud-based crime intelligence and data visualization tool, providing law enforcement agencies with insightful analytics used to solve and prevent crime; And TipSoft, the industry’s most widely-adopted tip information and workflow management platform developed for gathering anonymous tips from the public and disseminating alerts.

Just came across this great news story about CrimeReports from Fox 10 in Pensacola, Florida. Near the end a man who runs a community center comments that a map like our could harm people who live in high-crime areas. What are your thoughts?

Last Sunday evening, officers were dispatched to investigate a call of an armed subject. When Aurora Police Department officers arrived on the scene, they concluded that is was domestic-related and subsequently surrounded the residence where it was purported that an armed male was held up.

More than a dozen police officers were present. They surrounded the residence, along with several other houses in the immediate vicinity. Officers heard a single gunshot ring out and immediately entered the home where they located a male with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Hatari.co.ke recently launched in Kenya as a way to crowdsource crime information in the capital, Nairobi.

Hatari.co.ke is is a website that allows anyone in Nairobi, Kenya, to submit reports about crime and corruption in the city. (“Hatari” means “danger” in Swahili.) It will provide the growing city and its inhabitants with a repository of public information about incidents such as carjacking, corruption, police harassment and others.